Contracts & Procurement

The Idaho National Laboratory’s cleanup contractor, Fluor Idaho, has been paid $4.1 million in performance award and incentive fees since in June taking over the contracts of CH2M-WG Idaho and Idaho Treatment Group. Fluor will receive its first formal performance report card at the end of fiscal 2017. The contractor is expected to tally another […]

Los Alamos National Security earned 90 percent of all fees available in fiscal 2016 for its bridge contract for legacy cleanup operations at the Los Alamos National Laboratory in New Mexico, according to the latest performance scorecard from the Department of Energy’s Office of Environmental Management. The contractor’s fee totaled $9.1 million, of a total […]

The European Commission announced Tuesday it had approved a capital financing plan intended to enable troubled French nuclear multinational AREVA to restructure its operations. The French state, which owns 86.5 percent of AREVA, intends to provide the company with 4.5 euros ($4.8 billion) in capital. AREVA has also received offers from strategic investors to supply […]

Pocatello, Idaho-based SUNSi JV has secured a contract worth as much as $4 million over five years to provide a host of technical services at multiple Department of Energy Office of Environmental Management (EM) sites. The time and materials, indefinite-delivery/indefinite quantity (ID/IQ) contract covers support activities in quality assurance, safety, radiological protection, emergency management, safeguards […]

The Savannah River Site’s liquid waste contractor earned 94 percent, $23.2 million out of a possible $24.6 million, of its performance award and incentive fees for fiscal 2016. On the recently released performance scorecard, the Department of Energy highlighted Savannah River Remediation’s (SRR) response in February to a leak in an evaporator pot, which slowed […]

URS-CH2M Oak Ridge (UCOR) scooped up nearly all of its available award fee for cleanup operations at the Energy Department’s Oak Ridge Site in Tennessee in the six months ended Sept. 30, according to the contractor’s latest award-fee scorecard. During the period just scored, UCOR earned some $3.4 million in fees, good for about 94 […]

Hanford Site tank farm contractor Washington River Protection Solutions (WRPS) received 77 percent of the award fee available for fiscal 2016, down from 88 percent for the previous budget year, according to a Department of Energy scorecard. “WRPS performed adequately through a turbulent year, but there were times when substantial ORP [DOE Office of River […]

The management and operations contractor for two key U.S. nuclear arms sites improved its performance significantly in fiscal 2016, according to the National Nuclear Security Administration. However, Consolidated Nuclear Security will need to take another step forward to ensure it stays on the job past the initial term of its contract. CNS has since July […]

The contractor managing construction of the Mixed Oxide (MOX) Fuel Fabrication Facility at the Department of Energy’s Savannah River Site in South Carolina intends to issue a solicitation for a fixed-price subcontract to install HVAC ductwork and supports for the MOX project. CB&I AREVA MOX Services said in a Dec. 28 presolicitation notice that the […]

GE Hitachi Nuclear Energy said Tuesday it has won a three-year contract to support disassembly of two reactors at Sweden’s Oskarshamn Nuclear Power Plant. The work, expected to start in January and wrap up by the end of 2019, involves segmentation of the reactor pressure vessel internals for reactor Units 1 and 2 at the plant […]

The Defense Department last week awarded Lockheed Martin Space Systems Co. two contract modifications for work in support of the Trident II (D5) missile, a submarine-launched ballistic missile deployed on the United States’ Ohio-class vessels and the United Kingdom’s Vanguard-class submarines. The Pentagon on Dec. 27 announced a $17 million cost-plus-fixed-fee modification to exercise an option for Trident II […]

Hanford Site tank farm contractor Washington River Protection Solutions (WRPS) received 77 percent of the award fee available for fiscal 2016, down from 88 percent for the previous budget year, according to a Department of Energy scorecard. “WRPS performed adequately through a turbulent year, but there were times when substantial ORP [DOE Office of River Protection] […]

The National Nuclear Security Administration’s (NNSA) Office of Chief Information Officer is extending for up to six months its contract with Metrica Team Venture for information technology support services. A Dec. 23 notice said the agency will modify the San Antonio, Texas, company’s task order for additional IT and cybersecurity services in a one-month base […]

The National Nuclear Security Administration (NNSA) will extend for up to six months a contract with TechSource Inc., for technical, liaison, and analytical support services for the agency’s Office of Systems Engineering and Integration. A Dec. 30 notice said the NNSA would extend the contract for an initial three months, ending March 17, 2017, with the […]

The National Nuclear Security Administration (NNSA) in December hosted a preproposal conference for interested bidders for the protective force services contract at the Nevada National Security Site. Contract incumbent Centerra Group was among several companies that sent representatives to the meeting at the NNSA’s Nevada Field Office and site visit on Dec. 12 and 13. The others participants were ADC, […]

URS-CH2M Oak Ridge (UCOR) scooped up nearly all of its available award fee for demolition and decommissioning at the Energy Department’s Oak Ridge Site in Tennessee in the six months ended Sept. 30, according to the contractor’s latest award-fee scorecard. During the period just scored, UCOR earned some $3.4 million in fees, good for about 94 […]

The National Nuclear Security Administration said Thursday it had sealed follow-on agreements with three companies to complete its share of funding for their respective molybdenum-99 production projects. The deals ensure that SHINE Medical Technologies, NorthStar Medical Radioisotopes, and General Atomics will each receive the full $25 million from the agency for development of technologies to […]

The Savannah River Site’s security contractor earned $5.66 million out of a possible $5.92 million, or 95.5 percent, of its performance award fee for fiscal 2016. The Department of Energy highlighted Centerra-Savannah River Site’s efforts in keeping employees safe and cutting costs in the 12-month period ending Sept. 30. Contractors earn award fees each year by […]

AECOM’s contract to demolish an Energy Department experimental plutonium facility that operated in the 1950s was set to expire Wednesday, with demolition of the site’s two main buildings expected to stretch into next summer. The Energy Department was expected to extend AECOM’s deactivation, demolition, and removal of facilities contract at the Separations Research Process Unit (SPRU) […]

The site tour and pre-soliciation conference for the Department of Energy’s Moab Uranium Mill Tailings Remedial Action (UMTRA) technical assistance contract last week drew at least 42 attendees representing more than 30 organizations. The department on Dec. 1 issued a draft request for proposals for the contract, which would cover services for the Utah cleanup site including records […]

Lyle Cary has been named the new vice president of safeguards, security, and emergency services at the National Nuclear Security Administration’s Pantex Plant in Texas and Y-12 National Security Complex in Tennessee, the sites’ management and operations contractor announced Wednesday. Ken Freeman, currently serving in that role, is set to retire at the end of […]

The Savannah River Site’s security contractor earned $5.66 million out of a possible $5.92 million, or 95.5 percent, of its performance award fee for fiscal 2016. The Department of Energy highlighted Centerra-Savannah River Site’s efforts in keeping employees safe and cutting costs in the 12-month period ending Sept. 30. Contractors earn award fees each year by […]

The newly awarded management and operations contract for the Sandia National Laboratories will incorporate governance initiatives to boost transparency, improve project management, and increase engagement between the Department of Energy and its contractors, according to the National Nuclear Security Administration (NNSA). The semiautonomous DOE agency announced on Dec. 16 it had awarded the new contract […]

Lyle Cary has been named the new vice president of safeguards, security, and emergency services at the National Nuclear Security Administration’s Pantex Plant in Texas and Y-12 National Security Complex in Tennessee, the sites’ management and operations contractor announced Wednesday. Ken Freeman, currently serving in that role, is set to retire at the end of […]

AECOM’s contract to demolish an Energy Department experimental plutonium facility that operated in the 1950s was set to expire Wednesday, with demolition of the site’s two main buildings expected to stretch into next summer. The Energy Department was expected to extend AECOM’s deactivation, demolition, and removal of facilities contract at the Separations Research Process Unit (SPRU) […]

The Savannah River Site’s security contractor earned $5.66 million out of a possible $5.92 million, or 95.5 percent, of its performance award fee for fiscal 2016. The Department of Energy highlighted Centerra-Savannah River Site’s efforts in keeping employees safe and cutting costs in the 12-month period ending Sept. 30. Contractors earn award fees each year by […]

The site tour and pre-soliciation conference for the Department of Energy’s Moab Uranium Mill Tailings Remedial Action (UMTRA) technical assistance contract last week drew at least 42 attendees representing more than 30 organizations. The department on Dec. 1 issued a draft request for proposals for the contract, which would cover services for the Utah cleanup site including records […]

Bechtel National can at last start work that could allow the Waste Treatment Plant it is building to by 2022 start processing 56 million gallons of Cold War-era liquid waste stored at the Hanford Site in Washington state, the Energy Department announced late Friday. The update came in the form of a contract modification DOE and its […]

Several New Mexico lawmakers on Friday highlighted the need to focus on workforce recruitment and retention efforts at the Sandia National Laboratories, just hours after the National Nuclear Security Administration (NNSA) announced it had awarded a new management and operations contract for the facility to a subsidiary of Honeywell International. Sen. Tom Udall (D-N.M.), Sen. Martin […]

The National Nuclear Security Administration on Friday said it had awarded the management and operations contract for the Sandia National Laboratories (SNL) to National Technology and Engineering Solutions of Sandia (NTESS), a wholly owned subsidiary of Honeywell International. Northrop Grumman and the Universities Research Association consortium will support NTESS under the contract, which, with all […]